Web Task Force (WTF)
5/10/2004 Meeting Notes
(These are not comprehensive notes. Summarized on August 8, 2005 - yes, I'm a bit late! - from Cheryl's handwritten notes taken during the meeting.)
Members Present
Bob Bradshaw, Paula Cassano, Kevin Kirk, Cheryl Lambert, Mark Lieu, Shirley Peck, Rob Smedfjeld, Barbara Tull (from 2:15pm), and Lisa Waits (to 3:40pm).
Agenda Items
- OK, 10/2003 meeting notes
- Curriculum Guides website published - will begin removing CG information from academic department/division sites and linking to CG site instead
- Web Team has Acrobat 6 now - will read through User Guide especially re accessibility features
- Review possible new design
- Mark: Likes current design with image integrated into header
- Lisa: Likes current design - new one: too busy looking
- Talk with Patrice re Foundation site
- Need to trim home page:
- Explore: buttons for Events, News…to separate pages; try revolving too
- Trim A&R, Program Announcements…
- Maybe move "start here…" banner
- Doug Treadway wants logo redesigned based on "Ohlone Way" - by Fall 2004 (start)
- New logo ==> may mean new marketing; new website??? - Lisa will get Cheryl on the committee
- Status of:
- Web Team sites: 111 plus draft HR (Judy Masters providing content); several in progress; plus projects; Joanne Schultz organizing content for Business Services departments websites
- Jim Wright - about 6 months of emails (from Dec. 2003 Dean's meeting) with me and deans
re getting content from deans for department websites
- Go to Wed. meeting - Lisa & Jim Dean's joint meeting ==> bring "hits" info; bring printouts of Moorpark College program/dept. page
- Mark: Are Division sites necessary?
- Web Style Guide - Cheryl: revamp to make more "reasonable" (CSS, web standards)
- Mark: Phase in parts over a longer period of time
- Create a meet/don't meet checklist for accessibility of non-Web Team sites
- Mark: What Web Task Force do from now on?
- re-envision what committee does?
- Mark: Lack of motivation to provide info for department sites
- Catalog as source?
- Lisa: "hits" info may be useful
- Cheryl: send this out
- Mark: minimum one page with Dean contact and link to curriculum Guide (Rob, Bob agrees to not do more); email to faculty/deans re "here's what I put up, anything more…send to us")
- Barbara: Flex - take photo of department members at each meeting?
- Barbara: Department email addresses?
- Mandy Kwok-Yip: project to write "Career Opps" for each department
- WebCT will be outsourced through CVC WebCT servers
- "www3" server for faculty with websites on "online" server
- Reasons for "online" server:
- FTP from outside campus
- Avoid Publisher's Workbench
- Publish "live" (skip dev2)
- Bob: Mac servers are under utilized - use one for "www3"?
- Reasons for "online" server:
- Wed. Flex Day in August - Rob - New faculty campus tour
- Possible Flex Day workshop:
- BASIC: Photo, name, content (schedule); Mark used a text file; could use template
- Mark: Help setup a workshop; accessibility of their own site
- Bob: Have digital cameras available at Jackson Theatre for faculty photos for their website
Emergency